Pick Fireflies.ai if
revenue and CS teams who want every call transcribed without a human scribe.
Read the Fireflies.ai pageFireflies.ai vs OpenAI Whisper
Our take
Pick Fireflies.ai if revenue and CS teams who want every call transcribed without a human scribe. Pick OpenAI Whisper if developers and researchers who will run a checkpoint locally or on a Space and accept open-model quality. Skip Fireflies.ai if people who want bot-free on-device notes (Krisp) or a local Whisper file drop (OpenAI Whisper). Skip OpenAI Whisper if people who want a hosted voice product with a
Fireflies.ai
meeting notetaker
OpenAI Whisper
speech-to-text model you can run locally
Best for
Fireflies.ai A bot that joins Zoom / Meet / Teams and writes the recap
OpenAI Whisper Transcribe or translate speech
Free plan
Fireflies.ai $0 · free forever on the card we fetched
OpenAI Whisper $0 · mIT. You pay CPU/GPU and disk for the checkpoint
Lowest paid
Fireflies.ai Pro $18/mo yearly
OpenAI Whisper Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Fireflies.ai Business $29/mo yearly
OpenAI Whisper
Runs where
Fireflies.ai
OpenAI Whisper Local or hosted
Watch out
Fireflies.ai Seats are billed
OpenAI Whisper Local is not free electricity
Last checked
Fireflies.ai 2026-10-20 · fireflies.ai/pricing
OpenAI Whisper 2026-10-20 · github.com/openai/whisper
Which one, then?
Pick OpenAI Whisper if
developers and researchers who will run a checkpoint locally or on a Space and accept open-model quality.
Read the OpenAI Whisper page